on death :) (in game.. hehe)

how do you raise someone from the dead? is it at all possible? (I finally managed to kill Samia and her damn mage... but I lost Cernd in the fight so I can't decide if I should just continue on, or retry that fight again...

There are resurection spells in both mage and priest schools. Jaheira has one in my game.. I am not sure what level you have her up to, or if you even have her in your party. There is also a wand, that you can use to do a ressurection. You will find it, in the sewers under the temple district, as the prize of a subquest. Behind one of the two secrect doors, there is a little wizard named mak'er or something like that (I forget). He asks you to go find a magic mirror that an imp stole from him. the imp is out in the sewer tunnels, and easy to kill. when you bring bac k the mirror, the wizard not only gives you an NPC, the halfling bard Haer'Dalis, but in the room where the wizard is, the wand is hidden in the magic furnace. You also pick up a new quest from Haer'Dalis...which is um.. intresting. Get ready to use that wand